Twenty-five years ago, the world was rocked by the assassination of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. Just a year after winning the Nobel Peace Prize – together with Shimon Peres and the PLO’s Yasser Arafat – for his part in…
Rabin’s legacy: 25 years later
The Latest
-
Opinion Rabin’s contribution was recognizing us as partners. Don’t erase it.
This essay is part of a collection of essays commemorating the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. The collection was produced in partnership with BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change. What makes someone a hero? It isn’t perfection, that much I know. Nelson Mandela supported violent resistance, Mahatma Gandhi held racist views towards South Africans, and Abraham…
-
Opinion Let’s lay the myth to rest: Rabin wouldn’t have brought peace.
This essay is part of a collection of essays commemorating the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. The collection was produced in partnership with BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change. There is a reigning myth that when Yigal Amir assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on November 4, 1995, he also assassinated peace. It is, like many…
-
Opinion Have we learned nothing from our most divided time?
This essay is part of a collection of essays commemorating the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. The collection was produced in partnership with BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change. I remember the Shabbat of the murder as if it were yesterday. At that time, I lived on Kibbutz Mishmar Hanegev as a foreign resident. I was…
-
Opinion What Rabin can teach us about fighting corona: Without civil discourse, we are lost.
This essay is part of a collection of essays commemorating the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. The collection was produced in partnership with BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change. For young people in Israel today, the assassination of Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Yitzhak Rabin is simply another event on the timeline of history. Those…
-
Opinion Rabin’s Jewish-Arab alliance was a democratic revolution. We must reclaim it.
This essay is part of a collection of essays commemorating the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. The collection was produced in partnership with BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change. Yitzhak Rabin brought about two fundamental changes in age-old conventions in Jewish Israeli society. In 1993, the Government of Israel recognized the PLO as the legitimate representative…
-
Opinion A legacy of “us,” not “them”
This essay is part of a collection of essays commemorating the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. The collection was produced in partnership with BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change. Where were you when Rabin was assassinated? Everyone who remembers the murder remembers where they were when it happened. It was an event so shattering that the…
-
Opinion We are on the precipice of a violent divide. We must embrace those we disagree with.
This essay is part of a collection of essays commemorating the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. The collection was produced in partnership with BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change. As someone who has devoted his entire career to strengthening Jewish Peoplehood, I am deeply troubled by the polarization in our political and religious discourse. The murder…
-
Opinion Religious fundamentalism is still our biggest threat
This essay is part of a collection of essays commemorating the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. The collection was produced in partnership with BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change. In April 1948, David Ben Gurion approached a young lawyer, Mordechai Beham, and asked him to urgently prepare the first draft of the Declaration of Independence of…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Theater Hidden in this picture, the murder of 1.1 million Jews
- 2
Opinion USC: Don’t blame Jews for canceling your valedictorian
- 3
Fast Forward Confidential letter shows Columbia professor who called Hamas attack ‘awesome’ is under investigation
- 4
Fast Forward 2 House members lead the charge to oust the speaker. Both have been accused of trafficking in antisemitism.
In Case You Missed It
-
News The great tent conspiracy theory: Are ‘outside agitators’ supplying protesters’ tents?
-
Fast Forward Netanyahu decries ‘antisemitic mobs’ at Columbia as university negotiates with student protesters
-
Culture How a ‘lowly Orthodox,’ punk rock lesbian ended up in Hasidic Crown Heights
-
Culture The fastest growing sport in the US, pickleball is as accessible as it is fun
Engage
-
Catch Up on Yiddish Events
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
